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These beasties looked like they could be useful to have, and can be reused in many contexts. For more context, see our profile for Wesley Tyler, the game’s hero. Overview Brute maulers are, perhaps not surprisingly, hulking musclebound bruisers. They are humanoids, but their head is...

Context Shadowgrounds is a minor 2006 shooter video game, by Frozenbytes. There are scythe worms in it. For a bit more context, see our Wesley Tyler character profile. These beasties looked like they could be useful to have, and can be reused in many contexts. Overview Scythe worms...

Overview These undead servants are named “coolie zombies” because most of them wear a conical straw hat. Variants on this sort of hat are commonly used throughout Asia and nearby islands for prolonged outdoors labour. Indentured servants of large companies were often called...

Powers & Abilities These biomechanoids are chiefly mobile weapon platforms. They are equipped with two energy cannons, which they instinctively aim and fire. These weapons are presented as lasers, but the energy pulses have a readily observable travel time. They might in fact be...

The skeletons are “loaded” with a pair of spiked balls linked by a chain. Though one would expect some sort of bola, the chain is held magically rigid. The projectile thus doesn’t wrap around anything – it just hits things over its span as it flies spinning. With...

“It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.” – Serious Sam, upon shooting a Gnaar dead. Context Serious Sam is a series of silly, old-school video games about shooting all the things with all the guns all the time. The first game was published in 2001. It...

Powers & Abilities (As often on writeups.org, this section reframes Gaige’s abilities so they make sense outside of video game logic. It also assumes a typical Ordered Chaos/Best Friends Forever build, though there’s about four standard builds for Gaige.) Gaige is a...

Overview The ample wilderness of Pandora is dominated by innumerable bandit gangs of various sizes. The stronger the leader, the larger the gang. Bandits are not always well-armed (some may just have a pistol), but it’s not uncommon for them to have assault weaponry, grenades and orb...

The illusive generic Vault Hunter The “characters” in the first Borderlands game are closer to being character classes, as they can all develop a variety of builds in typical Action-Adventure Computer Role-Playing Game fashion. For instance, this entry assumes that Lilith has a typical...